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5.
Oblt. Herbert Kolm,
staffelkapitän of 8./KG 76, was the ranking officer and leader of the formation of Arado Ar 234 B-2 bombers that took off from Leck on the morning of 5 May 1945 for Stavanger- Sola, Norway. Exactly one month later, he was at Schleswig-Jagel in Germany, entrusted by the British to fly an airworthy Ar 234 to England. This photo shows the two Arados captured at Schleswig on May 5 by the RAF Regiment. They are Ar 234 S7 W.Nr. 140107 and Ar 234 S13 W.Nr. 140113, lined up in a field next to a
rollbahn where the vegetation was hardly beginning to grow in this picture. Note that the nose wheels are reversed due to towing.
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This photo and others show that W.Nr. 140107 was marked "E2+30" and had the additions of white "07" and "22" on its tail, reflecting its original identity with
E-Stelle Rechlin on Lake Moritz north of Berlin. However, Jan Horn in
KG 76 Die Chronik ..., (2019) on page 219 publishes the
Starkemeldung der 7./KG 76 for 29 March 1945, including:
"
6. einsatxbereite Flugzeuge: 4; Zugang 140107 von E-Stelle Rechlin, Lärz, 140346 aus Achmer."
It is not known to me how W.Nr. 140107 got from Achmer to Schleswig. In this photo, W.Nr. 140107 is in the same position in the field next to the
rollbahn but the height of the vegetation suggests it id mid-summer, 1945. Note that its companion is gone.
Being
unklar (unserviceable), W.Nr. 140107 was given Air Ministry number 78, dismantled, crated and shipped to Oxfordness.